Suction cleaning-tool.



w. s. SU TTON; SUCTION CLEANING TOOL. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20, 1912.

1,061,422. Paten ed May 13, 1913.

lllllillfltON, 0F ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOE 1'0 AMERICAN RADIATOR UOEYHPANY, OI? GEICAGD, ILLINOIS, A. CORPORATION DIE NEW JERSEY.

SUCTION GLEANING-TOOL Application tiled August. 20,

Specification of Letters E'atent.

Patented my 1351913.

1912. Serial No. 716,014.

ill) rill whom it may concw 'n lio it known that l, \Vnaaan S. SlIl'lI'LON, 'zon oi tho llni zxd State's, residing, atin tho county otl v'innehago and Illinois, have invented certain new l'ul Inipi'oveminits in Suction Cleaningg l oola of which the following is a specification.

a W P My iiwoi'itiion isolates broadly to a suction danignacl to clean hard. surfaces where r l l; lF-l collected from such son in pizwii'ms to tho usual construction izian oh long shaped hood provided with a loi'igilui'linail suction alol whim opens: at hath oinds of tho head, tho function {the edges being to li'}l"JSt-lllll1) inatoi'ial to colloctod from the surface to he cleaned, wl'ioi-ouipon air drawn in at. the ends of tho slot oolioc'es tho malox-ial'so loosonod oaiisii' g it to pass through the tool and to a ouitahlo collecting ohamhoz'. in tools of this chziifat'tor it in impossil'ilo to thoioughiy clean the angles of a room, such as 1th:- inn loi inud at tho minding of the asohoard and floor, and iho dust or dirt :ollootod in the owners; of rooms has been iz'nrlio'ulaPly difiionlt to i'omoi'o.

Tho principal oldest of my invention, lil'ioi'ixi'oi'g is; to pi-oviilo a suction cleaning tool whiol'i will lhiii'oughly and oliioionllv oloan the angles and. COI'YAIQIJS U qol'od on,

is n front oloi'i'itiona'l vim/of my improved sur-tion lool; Fig. 2 isa top View showing iho ool in a cox-nor; Fig. is a entral crossllofoi'ifiogy now more cleaning lool, lonl; more particularly to a tool dirt oi the surfaces .ln tho nacifiinpanying drawing, l igure 1.

l l l l i tends to the corner board and the floor or an; angle loi'inod. by

will thus more roadily integral with tho nlato 8 and in such position that the opening 11 in the handle memher will register with the opening 7.

The formation of the slot 6 divides the tool into substantially two sections which I shall term the forward side 12 and the rear sidelil. By using a tool as hei'oin shown with tho suction slot 6 terminating at each end thereof, it would be impossible to so turn the tool as to draw the material to he collected from a corner of a room. In order that the tool may much into a corner I therefore cut away the ends of the forward edge 12 as shown at 14 and 15 so as to form L'ansverso passageways, each leading; from the two foi'ward corners of the tool to the longitudinal suction slot (3. The upper edges ll} of the passageways l='land 15 are holow the top surface of tho head so that when the end of the tool is parallel to and in contact with or close to the, bZlFE-lJOlllti of 75 a mom 01 any surface vertical to the Surface being operated upon, the 113C055 '14 or 15 exfrom which the dirt will he drawn into the recess and thence into the saint 6. An additional honolit is derived by cutting away the ends of the forward odgu as itloavcs the corners 18 L'XpHSGLl, which not as scrapers to remove the dirt 01 other material from the anglo lit-tween the basethe meeting of horizontal and voilic'al sin-- faccs, so that in moving the tool over a lloor when one end is adjacont a vertical surface the material will he sci'npvd or loosened by one of tho SCI'HNOI edges 1.8 and be drawn into the suction tool.

Having now desoriho l my invention, I claim: I

l. A suction tool having a longitudinal B-tloi and thiwall on one side oi the nlot being shorter than ting: wall on ilzn opposilu sido, said walls being final: with ouch oihm on their working faces.

2. A suction tool comprising a top wall and spaced side walls forming a Fl lt, one of said side walls living groator in length than the other side wall.

\llliLlAh'l El. SUTTON.

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